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  <h1>The Olive FAQ List</h1>

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    <dt>What's Olive's license?</dt>
    <dd>
      Olive is distributed under
      the <a
      href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">X11
      license</a>,
      a <a
      href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses">GPL
      compatible</a> license very similar to the revised BSD
      license.. Most (if not all) of Olive's dependancies are
      distributed under Perl's licensing terms (Artistic/GPL).
    </dd>
    <dt>Why can't I sort by feed?</dt>
    <dd>
      Because that's dumb. There's already a tool for checking the
      latest stories on a specific website. It's called "a browser".
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    <dt>So I'm stuck with this one list, sorted by age?</dt>
    <dd>
      Yep.
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    <dt>Oh. This isn't quite what I was looking for...</dt>
    <dd>
      Then you may be interested
      in <a href="http://www.raggle.org/">Raggle</a>, which is a bit
      less radical in design,
      or <a
      href="http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/">SnowNews</a>,
      which is more functionally traditional but even more austere
      with respect to UI.
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    <dt>How do I edit a feed's info or delete it from Olive?</dt>
    <dd>
      Invoke the feed property editor with <code>C-e</code> or the
      feed removal dialog with <code>C-r</code>.
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    <dt>How do I see the full story?</dt>
    <dd>
      Set the <code>Link command</code> in the Options panel, then
      press <code>'l'</code> to fire off an external browser on the
      current story. Some suggested values are 
      <code>"firefox -remote 'openurl(LINK)'"</code> and
      <code>"screen w3m LINK"</code>. (And I mean <code>LINK</code>
      literally. That's the magic pattern in the command string which
      will be replaced with the current URL.)
    </dd>
    <dt>Where's the manual?</dt>
    <dd>
      That'll ship with the version 1 release. If you're using beta
      software (especially something this simple) you should be able
      to figure it out.
    </dd>
    <dt>Does it work on my OS?</dt>
    <dd>
      It should work anywhere that Perl and Curses::UI
      work. I have a report that it does not run under
      Windows+Cygwin.
      <p>
        It <i>does</i> work on OS X. And <a href="osx.html">here</a> is
        how to make it happen.
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